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Article: Woman competing in Olympic marathon trials
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2000
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Woman competing in Olympic marathon trials
Thursday, February 24, 2000
City of Pewaukee -- Mary Peckarsky, 34, hopes her second marathon
Saturday in Columbia, S.C., will be good enough to qualify her for
the U.S. women's team that will compete in the 2000 Olympics in
Sydney, Australia, in September.
"I'm feeling like an underdog," said Peckarsky, who ran her first
and only marathon in Milwaukee in 1998.
Peckarsky's time is not among the top qualifiers for the trials.
However, Peckarsky, who is 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs just 78
pounds, has ...